The Truth About Orlik

December, 1966

The Truth about OrlikWhen it was reported that a lead mine had been discovered in the Galorian foothills, I was tempted to warn potential speculators that the prospectors had probably discovered, splashed into the crevices in the quartz, a few of the many tons of ammunition we wasted there when Orlik "heroically subdued" the mountaineers, 35 years ago.They made him a general after that, and later a marshal; and now we have an Orlik Square, with a bronze statue of him in the middle of i...